Dancing Cheek to Cheek: An Intimate History of Dance

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Dancing Cheek to Cheek: An Intimate History of Dance
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Len Goodman and Lucy Worsley explore how dancing went from being frowned upon as dangerous and debauched in the 17th century to being celebrated as an essential social skill in the 18th century. The pair begin by joining a group of performing arts students on Ickwell village gre...

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Len Goodman and Lucy Worsley discover how the first few decades of the 20th century witnessed the most rapid and revolutionary change in the history of British dance. The bold new sound of ragtime music arrived on our shores from America and paved the way for wave after wave of new dances that would take the dance floor by...
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Len Goodman and Lucy Worsley reveal how Britain's dance floors were revolutionised in the 19th century as the slow and stately dances of an earlier era were replaced with new dances that were faster, freer and a lot more fun.
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